Flint

[pepperbelly]

I recently got a 1777 Charleville musket and need flints. I will buy them at first, but I have a big piece of what might be flint.
I found it while out mowing the right of way here in Saginaw, Texas. We have a LOT of limestone around here. The piece I found actually looks a lot like a potato. There is a place where it looks like a scoop was taken out, and that area looks sorta greenish like flint. I am a little color blind s it might not be greenish. I was telling people it was my petrified tater, and has some believing it.

How do I figure out if it is flint, what kind of flint, and how do I make it into flints for my musket? Or should I not mess with it and just buy some? Chunks like this can't be rare, but this is the first one I remember finding.

Jim

Jim

 

[Charles D. Prokopp]

Sounds like a flint nodule still in its matrix. Try knocking off a chunk from the edge of the divot that's already been taken out. That'll give you some idea of what you have. Smoothly curved flake with a few ripples and a sharp edge would suggest flint.